cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/1847272
Barbara Oppenheimer - a retired Boston University professor and grandmother of five based in Newton, Massachusetts - has had quite the summer amid this year’s “Barbenheimer” frenzy.
In an interview with Slate, Oppenheimer revealed that numerous people thought she was joking when she would say her name outloud. The retiree recalled a specifically confusing moment during a recent vacation, saying: “When I checked in at the hotel, I said, ‘Barbie Oppenheimer!’ The guy said, ‘Are you pulling my leg?’”
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
I don’t find it that strange really, Barbie is a first name (its a diminutive of Barbara), Oppenheimer is a surname
Also, she actually married someone from the Oppenheimer family and took his name, so